Such was the response to my first posting about what annoys me, I’ve decided to vent my spleen on another five outrageously infuriating nudniks or thingamabobs that really tick me off. With the benefit of hindsight there are a couple here that really deserve star status and therefore should have been in part one. Well,…
Now I have to tell you that I was totally shocked yesterday. Jody Ruth very kindly nominated me for … wait for this …. The Stylish Blogger Award! Anyone who knows me would immediately grasp the shock value here as the word ‘stylish’ is definitely one that has never ever been associated with my name…
Once I completed my little list below, I had such a glowing sense of the therapeutic value of relieving myself of them that I had to go back up to the title and add ‘Part 1’, which gives me a great excuse to return to this topic again in the near future. So, back to…
For me, May signals a time to focus on the business side of writing. With my semester winding down here in America, I have the time to research markets, create spread sheets—in other words, abandon the fluidity and near haphazardness that so often characterizes my creative writing. Looking for opportunities, I checked out the May/June…
A Vandal reader made an astonishing discovery: Google has censored the planet Gloth! Yes, I know it is hard to believe that such a remarkable feat of astronomical detective work by Derek Haines should be covered up, either by glaring omission or, more likely, by a government conspiracy, but it is sadly the current state…
Like a rocket landing in the eye of a full moon, steampunk as a genre has become a recent force in the publishing world. Books such as The Windup Girl, Behemoth, and Corsets & Clockwork are available on Kindle and Nook. There is a large following, as well – Steampunk conventions are popping up in…
